Scouting event
Coming of Age jamboree
Event data
Name	3rd World Scout Jamboree
Location	Birkenhead
Country	United Kingdom
Date(s)	1929
Attendance	50,000 Scouts

Cartoon in Punch, published in 1929 for the 3rd World Scout Jamboree

The 3rd World Scout Jamboree was held in 1929 at Arrowe Park in Birkenhead, United Kingdom. As it was commemorating the 21st birthday of Scouting for Boys and the Scouting movement, it is also known as the Coming of Age Jamboree. With about 50,000 Scouts and over 300,000 visitors attending, this jamboree was the largest jamboree ever. Map sources for Birkenhead at grid reference SJ3088 Birkenhead is a town on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. ... Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ... Map sources for Birkenhead at grid reference SJ3088 Birkenhead is a town on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. ... Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship Through Woodcraft is the first book on Scouting. ... Scouts and Guides from different countries on World Scout Moot 1996 Scouting is a worldwide youth organization. ... Look up Scout in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Scout can refer to: International Harvester Scout, an SUV Reconnaissance Scouting, the world-wide youth organization Scout rank (Boy Scouts of America) Scout (comic), a comic book from Eclipse Comics. ...

Organizational details

From 29 July 1929 to 12 August 1929, the third World Scout Jamboree was held at the Arrowe Park, in Birkenhead, United Kingdom. This jamboree commemorated the 21st birthday of Scouting, counting from the publication of the book Scouting for Boys by General Baden-Powell. Therefore this jamboree is also known as the Coming of Age Jamboree.^[1][2] July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The World Scout Jamboree (Jamboree Scout Mondial in French) is a gathering of Scouts (ages 14-17) from all over the world. ... Map sources for Birkenhead at grid reference SJ3088 Birkenhead is a town on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. ... Jamboree is a title of two albums: Jamboree, released by Guadalcanal Diary in 1986. ... Scouts and Guides from different countries on World Scout Moot 1996 Scouting is a worldwide youth organization. ... Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship Through Woodcraft is the first book on Scouting. ... Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, writer, and founder of the world Scouting Movement. ...

The Jamboree on a site of 450 acres was opened by the Duke of Connaught, the president of the Boy Scout Association, and fifty thousand Scouts and Girl Guides of many countries attended. During the first week, the weather was poor, turning the park grass into ankle deep mud, gaining the jamboree its nickname jamboree of mud.^[3][4] Prince Arthur as a lieutenant in The Prince Consorts Own Rifle Brigade. ... It has been suggested that Gimmie 5 be merged into this article or section. ... Look up Scout in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Scout can refer to: International Harvester Scout, an SUV Reconnaissance Scouting, the world-wide youth organization Scout rank (Boy Scouts of America) Scout (comic), a comic book from Eclipse Comics. ... The Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts of the USA in the United States) is the largest intenational youth organisation for girls and young women. ...

The camp was organized in eight subcamps, around a specially built town in the middle, called Midway, where Scouts could purchase materials. Each subcamp provided pitches for a contingent of scouts troops. The organization of daily chores such as cooking, campfire collecting, etc were done in turn by the groups.^[4][5][6]

Events during the jamboree

On Baden-Powell a peerage was conferred by King George V of the United Kingdom, as was announced on 2 August 1929 by the Prince of Wales who attended the Jamboree in Scout uniform. To confirm the high notion Baden-Powell had of education and training, he chose to style himself Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell, after Gilwell Park where the international Scout Leader training in the Wood Badge course took place.^[3] The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, as a result of his creating it from the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Prince of Wales Feathers. This Heraldic badge of the Heir Apparent is derived from the ostrich feathers borne by Edward, the Black Prince. ... Gilwell Park was bought for The Scout Association in 1919, by Mr. ... A Scout Leader generally refers to the trained adult leader of a Scout unit. ... The Wood Badge or Woodbadge is the recognition received by adults in Scouting who have completed the Leader training program provided by their respective Scout Association. ...

In the morning of Sunday 4 August 1929, a open air thanksgiving service was held, presided by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Archbishop Bourne for Protestant and Catholic Scouts, and later at that day in Liverpool Cathedral also a service was held.^[4] August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Arms of the see of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior clergyman of the established Church of England and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... North elevation of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. ...

On 10 August 1929, the Chief Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powell was given special attention. On behalf of all Scouts world wide, he was presented with a Rolls-Royce motor car and a caravan trailer. The caravan was nicknamed Eccles and is now on display at Gilwell Park. Also he was given an oil painted portrait by David Jagger, which since has been used as a publicity picture by many Scout organizations. It is on display in the Baden-Powell House. Lastly, Baden-Powell was given a cheque for £2,750 and an illuminated address. These gifts were paid for by penny donations of more than 1 million Scouts worldwide, which earned the Rolls its nickname of Penny Rolls.^[4] August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The position of Chief Scout in the United Kingdom started with the appointment of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement, as Chief Scout. ... Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, writer, and founder of the world Scouting Movement. ... The Rolls Royce logo Rolls-Royce is a set of several companies, all deriving from the British automobile and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906. ... Gilwell Park was bought for The Scout Association in 1919, by Mr. ... Baden-Powell House, colloquially known as B-P House, is a Scouting hostel and conference center for members of The Scout Association. ... The pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom (UK). ... A variety of coins considered to be lower-value, including an Irish 2p piece and many US pennies. ...

Closing ceremony and Golden Arrow

The farewell ceremony on the last day, 12 August 1929, consisted of a glorious march with flags and banners past the royal box with the Chief Scout and other officers, ending in a Wheel of Friendship formed by the Scouts, with 21 spokes symbolic for the 21 years of Scouting. While burying a hatchet in a cask of gilded wooden arrows, Baden-Powell addressed the gathered Scouts. August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hatchet from the old French hachette a diminutive form of the word hache or axe. ...

Here is the hatchet of war, of enmity, of bad feeling, which I now bury in Arrowe. From all corners of the world you came to the call of brotherhood and to Arrowe. Now I send you forth to your homelands bearing the sign of peace, good-will and fellowship to all your fellow men. From now on in Scouting the symbol of peace and goodwill is a golden arrow. Carry that arrow on and on, so that all may know of the brotherhood of men.

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I want you all to go back from here to your countries in different parts of the world with a new idea in your minds of having brothers in every country... Go forth from here as ambassadors of goodwill and friendship. Every one of you Scouts, no matter how young or small, can spread a good word about this country and those whom you have met here. Try to make yourselves better Scouts than ever; try to help other boys, especially the poorer boys, to be happy, healthy, and helpful citizens like yourselves. And now, farewell, goodbye, God Bless you all.^[1][2][4]

Memorabilia

For the event a memorial sculpture by sculptor Edward Carter Preston was erected in 1931 at the entrance to Arrowe Park Hospital. It was commissioned by the Boy Scout Movement, and unveiled by Lord Hampton, the Headquarter's Commissioner. After restoration in the early 1980s, it was re-unveiled in 1983 by the then Chief Scout Major-General Michael Walsh.^[7] The memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii commemorates American dead from wars in the Pacific. ... An Italian Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Michael Walsh is a religious writer. ...

See also

Scouting Portal

• World Scout Jamboree

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Related reading

• Fisher, Claude (1929). The World Jamboree, 1929: the quest for the Golden Arrow (in English). The Boy Scouts Association, 151 pages. ASIN B0008D276Y.

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References

1. ^ ^a b Jamboree Histories. The Scout Association. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
2. ^ ^a b Jamboree Histories. World Organization of the Scout Movement. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
3. ^ ^a b 3rd World Jamboree. Pine Tree. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
4. ^ ^{a b c d e} Scouting with staves and stetsons. Scouter Kevin. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
5. ^ History of the 1929 World Jamboree. David L Eby. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
6. ^ Bronx Valley Council Contingent, World Jamboree, Arrowe Park, England, 1929. U.S. Scouting Service Project. Retrieved on 2006-09-18.
7. ^ Memorial to World Boy Scout Jamboree. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Retrieved on 2006-09-18.

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